Abstract: The advancement of turbine cooling has allowed engine design to exceed normal material temperature limits, but it has introduced complexities that have accentuated the thermal issues greatly. ...

Abstract: The objective of the present study is to demonstrate a method to provide substantially increased convective heat flux on the internal cooled tip cap of a turbine blade. The new tip-cap ...

Abstract: This study presents a summary of the effects of manufacturing methods and processing steps upon the resulting thermal boundary conditions for typical highly cooled turbine airfoils. Specific ...

Abstract: The impact characteristics of wood-cement particleboard (WCPB) made with wood particles produced from the waste stream are investigated. With a view toward sustainable practices, the potential application of WCPB to enhance ...

Abstract: Closed‐form solutions are presented for random vibration response integrals arising in the analysis of multi‐degree‐of‐freedom (MDOF) systems to stationary nodal and/or support excitations Any pair of excitations must ...

Abstract: The estimation of frequency-dependent correlation functions for pairs of accelerograms is important in the analysis and modeling of the space-time variation of earthquake ground motions. Two methods of estimating the ...

Abstract: Concrete structures that are damaged due to cracking and spalling, associated with corrosion of reinforcing bars, are often repaired using shallow depth surface patches. Cracking and full or partial delamination of the ...

Abstract: The use of inexpensive electrochemical impedance spectroscopy based sensor technology for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of bond degradation between external carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) reinforcement and concrete ...

Abstract: The nonlinear response of laminated fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) plates modeled with finite elements and excited by stochastic loading is studied. FRPs are being used widely for structural applications in recent years ...